Thought for the Day 1/1/2007
How to make resolutions that stick!
1. Rethink your goals at any time. The start of a new year may have inspired you to plan to do too much, a sure invitation to failure. Pare down your list to one or two, three tops. For everyone that takes something away, such as quitting smoking or spending less, try to give yourself a positive, such as learning to play a musical instrument or learning to speak a new language.
2. Select the most important resolution and start working on it. You can delay the others until later once you’re sticking with #1.
3. Consider the psychological factors that might get in your way – like when you’re feeling tired or frustrated – and how you’re going to overcome them.
4. Always celebrate each step you take by telling yourself, “I feel great about moving up one level on the exercise bike.” Nothing is too small to feel good about. Minimal advancements, maximally appreciated, eventually add up to success. Most important, positive feelings don’t create mental clutter – they create confidence.
Jim Gentil
To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfill every good resolve and work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
1. Rethink your goals at any time. The start of a new year may have inspired you to plan to do too much, a sure invitation to failure. Pare down your list to one or two, three tops. For everyone that takes something away, such as quitting smoking or spending less, try to give yourself a positive, such as learning to play a musical instrument or learning to speak a new language.
2. Select the most important resolution and start working on it. You can delay the others until later once you’re sticking with #1.
3. Consider the psychological factors that might get in your way – like when you’re feeling tired or frustrated – and how you’re going to overcome them.
4. Always celebrate each step you take by telling yourself, “I feel great about moving up one level on the exercise bike.” Nothing is too small to feel good about. Minimal advancements, maximally appreciated, eventually add up to success. Most important, positive feelings don’t create mental clutter – they create confidence.
Jim Gentil
To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfill every good resolve and work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
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